Just occasionally copies of books that are quite common bear
important inscriptions. Always read the small print ! Here are three books written by Lewis Carroll’s
nephew, Stuart Dodgson Collingwood ( son of Mary Dodgson) written at the time
of Carroll’s death in 1898. One has a presentation inscription by Wilfred (
Carroll’s brother), the second bears M. Dodgson’s inscription ( either Mary or
Margaret) and the Lewis Carroll Picture
Book is inscribed by the author to a Mrs Fuller, from the family home The
Chestnuts in Guildford, with an autograph letter on the rear endpaper. The
photograph shows four books ; the fourth contains an autograph third person
letter by Dodgson himself dated 8 June 1884 in purple ink. This item I was very pleased to have because I already had a letter also by Dodgson dated 4 days earlier to the same bookseller Meehan of Bath
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